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Adventure Guide to Peru
Hunter Publishing 2006; US$ 15.00We have the only all-color guide and the most extensive one to Peru. Larger than Spain, France and Germany combined, Peru offers astonishing variety in its landscape, from the endless desert coastline, to the cool mountain waters of Lake Titicaca, the glaciered pinnacles of the Andes or the rainforests filled with wildlife. The author shows how to... more...
An American Planter
LSU Press 2006; US$ 24.95Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan (1787-1867) was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with a remarkable array of social, economic, and political contacts in pre-Civil War America. In this, the first biography of Duncan, Martha Jane Brazy offers a compelling new portrait of antebellum life through exploration of Duncan's multifaceted... more...
Ancient Nasca Settlement
University of Iowa Press 1753; US$ 60.00Nasca society arose on the south coast of Peru two thousand years ago and evolved over the course of the next seven hundred years. Helaine Silverman's long-term, multistage work on the south coast of Peru has established her as one of the world's preeminent authorities on this brilliant and enigmatic civilization. Ancient Nasca Settlement and... more...
The Andean Codex
Hampton Roads Publishing 2005; US$ 15.95Experience a Sacred Way of Life For more than thirty years Dr. J. E. Williams has risked his health and personal safety to journey among shamans in Peru, the place he calls the mystical and spiritual center of our times. In its rain forests, mountains, and environmentally attuned indigenous population, Peru's mystical landscape fosters inner discovery.... more...
Andean Expressions
University of Iowa Press 2011; US$ 29.95Flourishing from A.D. 1 to 700, the Recuay inhabited lands in northern Peru just below the imposing glaciers of the highest mountain chain in the tropics. Thriving on an economy of high-altitude crops and camelid herding, they left behind finely made artworks and grand palatial buildings with an unprecedented aesthetic and a high degree of technical... more...
Anthropological History of Andean Polities
Cambridge University Press 1986; US$ 35.00It combines the perspectives of archaeology, anthropology and history to present a complex view of Andean societies over various millenia. more...
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers
Basic Books 2006; US$ 18.99One of America’s leading black intellectuals teams up with Myrlie Evers-Williams to bring us the first-ever definitive look at the life, work, and tragic death of civil rights hero Medgar Evers more...
Beaches, Blood, and Ballots
University Press of Mississippi 2007; US$ 67.50This book, the first to focus on the integration of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Gilbert R. Mason's eyewitness account of harrowing episodes that occurred there during the civil rights movement. Newly opened by court order, documents from the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission's secret files enhance this riveting memoir written by a major civil rights... more...
Becoming Southern
Oxford University Press, USA 1999; US$ 34.99Introduction: The Evolution of Old South Civilization. 1. Pioneers of the Loosa Chitto. 2. Economic Transformation and the Rise of the Planters' World. 3. Relations Within the Households: White Families. 4. Households Within Households: Masters and Slaves. 5. Brothers and Neighbors: The Politics of Patriarchy. 6. Hamlets and Towns: The Urban Process.... more...
Before the Shining Path
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 60.00This book examines the vibrant twentieth-century political history of rural Ayacucho, the region where Shining Path militants launched a bloody armed struggle in 1980. more...









